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Reading Trauma Narratives: Insidious Trauma in the Story of Rachel, Leah, Bilhah and Zilpah (Genesis 29-30) and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale

Old Testament Essays, 2020
This article investigates the notion of insidious trauma as a helpful means of interpreting the story of Rachel, Leah, Bilhah and Zilpah as told in Genesis 29-30 that has found its way into the haunting trauma narrative of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid ...
Juliana Claassens
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The Continuation of Israel’s Land Promise in the New Testament: A Fresh Approach [PDF]

, 2014
This article responds to recent evangelical interpreters who have argued that the land promise given to Israel in the Old Testament is no longer in effect based on the scarcity of references to the promise in the New Testament. The paper asserts that the
Luter, A. Boyd
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Was Einhard a widower?

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
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Being Human

Old Testament Essays
In the context of life-denying forces that have deeply scarred (South) Africa, what does it mean to be human? In the book of Psalms, we see a keen acknowledgment of humanity as precious and powerful, created “a little lower than God and crowned… with ...
Juliana Claassens
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Prophetic Oracles of Salvation in the Old Testament [PDF]

, 1992
Reviewed Book: Westermann, Claus. Prophetic Oracles of Salvation in the Old Testament.
Neeb, John H. C.
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Sexing the history of Indian anti‐colonial internationalism: White women, Indian men and the politics of the personal

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract In contrast to the wealth of literature on the gendered and sexual politics of Indian nationalism, studies on the internationalisation of Indian anti‐colonial nationalism are rarely informed by the twin themes of gender and sexuality. As Indian activists traversed international political spaces in the early twentieth century, they frequently ...
Joanna Simonow
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Meta‐Virtuality: Strategies of Disembeddedness in Virtual Interiorities

Journal of Interior Design, EarlyView., 2022
ABSTRACT To reclaim their seat in the rapidly growing market of virtual space, designers of the built environment can benefit from reevaluating theories that see the virtual as a mere extension/reflection of the physical. By claiming ontological autonomy from external worlds, the virtual is liberated from the hegemonic control of the physical.
Vahid Vahdat
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The Deuteronomic view of history in Second Temple Judaism

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2019
The Babylonian Exile was a historical catalyst compelling Jewish authors of the Second Temple period to deal with their respective situations in the course of history according to – or against – various predicaments from which they suffered in an ...
Ananda Geyser-Fouche, Young Namgung
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Theology of the Old Testament: testimony, dispute, advocacy [PDF]

, 1998
Reviewed Book: Brueggemann, Walter. Theology of the Old Testament: testimony, dispute, advocacy.
Uitti, Roger W.
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Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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